Post B47U7PplfInKUAJ7bc by ireneista@irenes.space
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 (DIR) Post #B474jBLbNPGRkhXs24 by NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
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       I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.
       
 (DIR) Post #B47POqlKIeMj9diwrI by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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       @NanoRaptor brb packaging some product in 1 kibigram packages
       
 (DIR) Post #B47U54nGvBdqeR1a5I by AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social
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       @NanoRaptor Mainly because no one but people hard into computing knows what "kibi" means.
       
 (DIR) Post #B47U54yGGKQrCWAMDI by Sylvhem@eldritch.cafe
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       @AdmiralMemo To be fair, no one but people into computing would think a kilo could mean 1024 in the first place.@NanoRaptor
       
 (DIR) Post #B47U7PplfInKUAJ7bc by ireneista@irenes.space
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       @NanoRaptor and this is the point at which we should mention that "kibi" is an existing international standard that really ought to be more popular, for this exact reason(the "bi" stands for "binary")
       
 (DIR) Post #B47UAEbHt6C4VvsWpc by yosh@toot.yosh.is
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       @NanoRaptor 1024 grams would be a "kibigram" I think. I really wish us computer folk would start consistently using the right prefixes for binary units because 💯 we should be doing better.
       
 (DIR) Post #B47jxGGpxuiHCD9IEC by downbeatdan@mas.to
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       @NanoRaptor @Sylvhem @AdmiralMemo To be fair, anyone growing up with the US imperial system would be conditioned that none of the conversions of anything into anything are nice round numbers. Anyone growing up with the metric system knows it's all 10, 100, 1000.